Attachment for check pads



R. C. CAUTHORN.

ATTACHMENT FOR CHECK PADS. APPLICATION FILED NOV,10, 1920.

1 102,398. Patented Jan. 3, 1922,

INVENTOR. I X E RCCAU RICHARD C. CAUTHORN, F NOWATA, OKLAHOMA, ASSIGNOR OFONE-HALF TO COURTNEY lvi. CAUTHORN, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

nmraonmnnr ro'a CHECK PADS.

Application filed November 10, 1920. Serial No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD C. Can- 'rHonN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nowata, in the county of Nowata and lowing is a specification.

This invention relates to attachments for check-pads of the character used in folding check books, and its primary object is to provide a device of very simple construction adapted to straighten the creases of a pad of folded checks inone position and to hold the stubs at the end thereof in another position.

It is a matter of common knowledge that a disadvantage of folding check books is the difficulty experienced in filling in checks after they have been folded, and my invention provides a very convenient means for flattening the checks so that they present a smooth writing surface.

My invention, furthermore, is of service in preventing the stubs from which the checks have been detached from separating as naturally results from their being repeatedly lifted for the purpose of filling in the following stubs.

An embodiment of my invention has been shown in the accompanying drawings in the various views of which like parts are similarly designated, and in which Figure 1 represents a folding check-book in the open condition, showing my invention applied to the stubs of a pad of check thereof;

Figure 2, a similar view showing the device in the position it occupies to flatten the checks of the book,

Figure 3, an enlarged transverse section taken on the line 3-3, Figure 2;

Figure 4, a plan view of the attachment drawn to an enlarged scale, and

Figure 5, a section on the line 5-5, Figure 4. V

Referring to the drawings the reference character 2 designates the leather back of a folding check book adapted to fold upon itself about a transverse line.

The back usually has a flap 3 provided with a snap-fastener 4 to hold it in its folded condition and it has interiorly a pocket 5 to receive a tongue at the end of a pad of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 3, 1922.

checks 6 for the in place.

Ea'ch check 6 is 'detachably connected with a stub 6 from which it is separated by a weakened line 6 and the several stubs of the pad are bound together by a back 6 to which the beforeanentioned tongue is attached.

When the book is folded, the checks of the pad secured therein are likewise bent transversely with the result that they can be written upon only with difficulty when the book is subsequently opened.

My invention by which this difficulty is eliminated comprises a clip 7 made of celluloid or other light, stiff and slightly resilipurpose of holding the pad ent material which consists of a back or to better flatten the portions of the checks to which it is applied, and its forward end 15 rounded as at 10 to facilitate its sliding movement along the bottom of the pad.

The inwardly turned flanges of the clip are spaced from the back thereof to embrace the edges of a pad of checks and they are notched at their outer edges as at 12 to provide finger-holds which facilitate the ad justment of the clip. v

In the use of my invention the pad of checks is inserted between the flanges and the back of the clip which is firmly held in place thereon by the inherent resilience of the material of which it is composed.

l/Vhen the check-book is in its folded condition the clip is placed to engage the stubs of the pad as shown in Figure 1, and after the book is opened it is moved to a position across the transverse crease of the checks as illustrated in Figure 2.

In the first mentioned position of the clip the stubs whose checks have been detached are held close together and in the other position of the same the checks are flattened so as to present a smooth writing surface.

The flanges may be recessed at their inner. edges as illustrated to fully expose the writing spaces of the checks, and the fingerholds at their outer edges may if so desired be produced by corrugation or other similar site edges thereof.

expedient instead of by the notches shown in the drawings.

Other modifications in the form and construction of-the device may be resorted to within the spirit of'my invention and without departing from the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a clip for folding check-pads comprising a curved body member and vinturned flanges at oppo- 2. As a new article of manufacture, a clip for folding check-padscomprising a body member and at opposite edges thereof inturned flanges having notches in their outer portions.

3. As anew article of manufacture, a clip for folding check pads comprising a body member and inturned flanges at opposite portions of the longitudinal edges thereof,

ythe body member being transversely and longitudinally curved and the flanges being curved in conformity therewith.

4-. As anew article of manufacture, a cllp for folding check pads comprising a body member and intnrned flanges at opposite edges thereof, said body member being extended at one of ts ends beyond said flanges to provide a tongue which aids in,

.tudinally and transversely curved body member, and inturned flanges at opposite edges thereof. 7

7. a new article of manufacture, a clip. for foldingcheck pads comprising a-longi tudinally and transversely" curved body member and correspondingly curved flanges at opposite edges thereof.

8. As a new article of manufacture, a clipfor folding check pads comprising-f a body member and inturned flanges at opposite edges thereof which, at one of their ends,

extend beyond the corresponding end of the body member. 7 i

In testimony whereof have affixed my signature. V

RICHARD c. CAUTHORN. 

